1001 Albums Summary

The sound's decent but doesn't really speak to me.

One that's actually part of my library already. Possibly because it was the first thing from The Strokes that I heard, but I'm still partial towards First Impressions of Earth instead. However, Is This It is still great and will continue to have a place in my library.

An absolute classic.

Nor here or there. I didn't hate listening to it but at the same time there was nothing for me to get excited about.

I have listened to the In The Court Of The Crimson King before, and as more of a Floyd fan, I expected to give this a 4/5 during the relisten. However, this album is so good that I don't think I can give it anything less than 5/5. I remembered it being good, but it's actually just great.

More enjoyable than I would've guessed, with Express Yourself being the standout track.

Easy listening but it didn't really do much for it.

Pleasant sound.

An album that I was not aware of before but one that I can definitely call great.

I don't think I've ever listened to Led Zeppelin IV front-to-back despite knowing songs from it, but it's pretty great from start to finish.

I don't absolutely hate it but I don't really find it that interesting and it feels a tad bit long-winded and not that interesting to listen to.

Very comfortable listening.

Alright listen.

This is a lot more enjoyable than I would've guessed.

A cool sound and quite the relaxing listen.

I wouldn't call it bad but it doesn't really click with me.

Perfectly listenable but not particularly exciting in terms of electronic music.

Good album with some great standouts.

Very smooth, relaxing.

It's been a long time since I listened to Music For The Jilted Generation and it's much better than I remembered. Definitely not the best that The Prodigy has to offer and a bit long-winded at points.

Feels a bit "eh". It’s not a bad sound but I’d struggle to name a single thing about it that I liked. Probably wouldn’t listen to it again, and if it came up on the radio or on shuffle, I probably wouldn’t even realise.

Not really the type of music that I'd normally seek out, but it's a pleasant listen. I think the remaster version might be padding out the thing though.

The music's alright, probably a 3/5 on that front, but the recording quality is quite poor and that distracts from the experience quite a bit.

Not really a thing I would seek out, but it's extremely pleasant to listen to. The RevOla remastered release also sounds great for a 66-year-old record.

I quite liked Lexicon Devil but rest of the album was more in the "eh" range.

Extremely average.

I’m generally not the biggest fan of tracks with a runtime of >10 minutes and I hadn’t ever heard of Czukay, so I went into this with relatively low expectations – but this album was a pleasant surprise.

Fairly relaxing.

I actually listened to Hunky Dory right before I started my 1001 Albums Generator project and quite liked it. I've yet to listen to everything by Bowie, but from all of the albums that I've listened to, I think Hunky Dory might actually be my favourite one. Not sure if I would say that everything on it is great, but rather everything is good with individual standouts like Changes or Life on Mars.

It's not awful but "Must Hear Before You Die"? If we're limited to 1001, then there are definitely better candidates not yet included. My dislike for this album is also greatly enhanced by the fact that the digital versions of this album basically repeat themselves, making it even worse for listening to in an album format.

It's been a while since I listened to all of Wish You Were Here and I remembered it being a solid 4/5. But relistening to it, it's actually even better than I remembered. Shine On You Crazy Diamond is way better than I remembered, Welcome to the Machine is fantastic, Have a Cigar is one of my all-time favourite Floyd songs and Wish You Were Here is absolutely beautiful. Zero filler even though Shine On You Crazy Diamond runs for 26 minutes in total, and I'm generally not a fan of extremely long tracks. I think I'd be lying to myself I gave this anything less than 5/5 when everything about it is so great. Even the cover art is iconic.

Uninspiring. And when it comes to rating this as an album, the remastered digital release I listened to is padded out with several versions of every song, diluting the experience further. Could've left that to a special edition or something.

Very middle of the road, slightly sleep-inducing.

I am sure there is an audience for this album, but I mostly found it a chore to listen to.

Was quite worried when I saw "The Cure" pop up, since I've already been given Pornography, and that album wasn't that good. However, this was actually a lot more pleasing to listen to.

Relaxing listen.

I wouldn't have thought it to be my cup of tea, but even for a 70-year-old album, it's still pretty fantastic.

It's not that interesting.

I think the best I can say about this is that it didn't hurt my ears or offend my senses. But it certainly isn't an interesting album. Perhaps it was influential back in 1968 but does nothing for me in 2026.

More enjoyable than I would've guessed but at the same time it's quite long with way too many interludes.

Perfectly listenable but quite generic.

Better than I expected.

Some tracks were pretty fun, but at some point it stopped being fun and started dragging on.

Good sound.

It's fine rock but I'm generally not a fan of live albums.

About as sophisticated like a bat with nails on it and hits as hard as one.

Decent groove.

Didn't make myself as a country fan but this is quite smooth and relaxing.

It's like a rap album and an audiobook had a malformed baby.

I feel like this album isn't mixed all that well and the music's generally really not that interesting. Not bad but there's nothing here that would motivate me to relisten.

Smooth as all hell.

I wouldn't call it super interesting, but it's pretty decent as lounging around music. Definitely not active listening type album.

I'd rate The Wall as not only my favourite Pink Floyd album, but as one of the greatest albums of all time. If I think about what are the best albums that I have ever heard, The Wall always comes to my mind.

Still not a fan of live albums.

Harder than I expected.

Smooth, relaxing.

Not awful but not really what I’d consider to be good or mediocre either. Awful cover art though. Who came up with this shit?

Eh?

Bowie is definitely well represented in this book (or rather books considering that even ★ snuck in a later edition). Personally, "Heroes" doesn't really do much for me. It's perfectly fine listening but I, as not of a Bowie fan anyway, think there's better Bowie records.

I liked it. I don't even mind Free Form Guitar, although I might skip it on shuffle.

I imagine this was a lot better in the 1960s.

This is a hard 3/5 if I've heard one.

I think this might be the first album past the original 2005 edition of the book that I actually enjoy properly. Maybe those later editions aren't a complete waste of everyone's time.

I'm not a fan of live albums in the first place, and as far as live albums go, this isn't a particularly good one. It also goes on for too long.

It's okay, but that's about as far as I'd go.

The cover art might be better than the album.

Seems like very generic pop-rock.

I was expecting some very bad metal from the album cover, but it instead was meh rock.

Better than I expected.

I can understand its inclusion on the list while listening to it, but it doesn't necessarily do that much for me. I imagine not being American doesn't help.

Meh?

I usually dread whenever a new album comes up on this list, but this is chill.

This is the most violent jazz I have ever heard in my life. I don't know if it's cheating that I took a break in middle of listening. I get the feeling that John Zorn intended me to be battered for 40 minutes straight. Maybe that's why I consider this to be kinda brilliant. And insane. Much better than the 68th mediocre, 3/5 pop-rock album. I guess I just like jazz way more than I previously thought? Some of you have basically no sense of adventure, no desire to venture out.

Very good but I'd say it's still more of a 4/5 to me than a full 5/5.

It's alright.

Had a hard time deciding between 3/5 and 4/5.

I think this was quite an enjoyable listen.

Starts out dogshit Then gets less bad Never gets good

I was expecting to give this a 1/5 after having heard Sepultura's Roots earlier during the project, but no, this one's actually good. Imagine my fucking surprise.

Can't say I much enjoyed that.

I imagine this would have been even better had it been recorded at a studio, but it's still great.

“Self-indulgent” is the first word that comes to my mind listening to this record.

I hope the tickets weren't expensive. At no point during this half-hour concert did I feel like I'd missed out because I wasn't there. At least the recording quality isn't dogshit.

It's a pleasant listen.

Banger of an album.

I can't understand on what merit this album got onto the list by listening to it.

I really didn't need to hear about how much sex this fat asshole was supposedly getting.

I expected worse since this is the single worst rated album on this site, but it was thankfully not that bad. It's just normal bad.

The music is quite good, but there's waaaay to many interludes.

Quite decent.

Pretty chill and enjoyable, actually.

Boring album with too many interludes.

I'd say that this is the worst Talking Heads album in the book, but that the worst Talking Heads album is still worth a solid 4/5.

Chill but nothing special.

Could be worse, but it's pretty fucking long and stale.

Who could hate this album?

I'd never ever go out of my way to go look for Hindustani classical music, but it's a hella relaxing listen.

The Prodigy's magnum opus.

It's weird but I don't hate it.

While I can appreciate the fact that Rundgren played most of the instruments on the album by himself, this album vastly overstays its welcome.

Couldn't get into it.

I am still of the opinion that there's too much Bowie in this book.

The recording quality on the version I found was quite bad. I hope there are better versions of this album out there, since it's a decent listen.

I liked it at first, but then it got kinda repetitive over time.

Very middle of the road. Also a pain in the ass to find.

It was a decent listen.

I'd say that this is the best one of the Kraftwerk albums on the book. It's a solid album, but it’s now confirmed that this experiment has not turned me into a huge Kraftwerk fan.

I imagined very generic pop based on the cover art, but it's actually quite a pleasant album.

This album doesn't convince me that live albums are good.

Feels extremely "safe".

I don't smoke enough for this.

I didn't care about listening to The Notorious B.I.G. talking about having sex, and I don't care for Jazmine Sullivan talking about having sex. Another one for the big list of post-2005 misses.

At least the album title feels accurate; it's like raw fish from the 80s.

I'm guessing this album is here because it killed the band and not because it's good. This Is What She's Like is way too long and so was the rest of the album considering how unremarkable the songs are.

Free Bird is obviously a 5/5, but I feel like the rest of the album is more of a 4/5 than a straight 5/5. A great listen anyhow.

I imagine I would have never gone out of my way to find this, but this is some real solid psychedelic rock. Piece of My Heart is the standout track and a solid 5/5.

It's a relaxing listen, but I'm not sure if there'd ever be a moment in my life again when I'd go "I wanna relisten to Shaka Zulu!" The album has a pretty interesting background though, and is produced by Paul Simon, so I'm not opposed to it being on the list. It's just that it doesn't really hit me on a musical enjoyment levels as much as it hits me on the musical intrigue levels.

The second star is just mercy for the grace of being somewhat different and interesting enough through that.

I like Suzanne Vega, although I think I'd rather be listening to Solitude Standing instead of this. Also my god this album cover is terrible. Why did they use a completely different font for the second half of the album?

I'm a sucker for jazz.

At no point do I feel like this is an album I must hear before I die. The nicest thing that I can say about this album is that they sample Edge of Seventeen, a song that I'd rather be listening to than this shit. Also, how is this album so fucking long? All of the hit singles are at the very beginning. I'd be inclined to give this a second star had they cut the track count in half.

Never heard of this act before, but the album was a pretty chill affair, and didn't overstay its welcome.

Absolute colossus of an album. Not gonna call it a compilation, since neither Wikipedia nor MusicBrainz considers it as one. And as far as I can tell, all of the songs were recorded in the same exact year, so that's not really "compilation" material to me. Despite its sheer size, I quite enjoyed the listen. Never a bad moment. But the fact that it's three hours does kinda water it down, making individual tracks that much less special. It's also pretty hard to listen in one sitting. And while I did like it, it's perhaps not my favourite kind of jazz. Hence I'd still edge towards 4/5 instead of 5/5.

Quite the mood whiplash since I started listening to this right after finishing my last album, The Gershwin Songbook. But other than the initial shock of switching from 1950s jazz to 1990s alternative rock, it didn't really invoke much other emotions in one way or another. Just very middle of the road alternative rock.

I hold these two opinions at the same time: 1. The Dark Side of the Moon is overrated. 2. The Dark Side of the Moon is a 5/5. It's an amazing album, but I do not understand why people rate it above The Wall, which I consider to be the great Floyd album. I'd possibly even consider Wish You Were Here to be on par with The Dark Side of the Moon.

Average album saddled with non-stop interludes.

I don't get the fascination with Elvis Costello.

It's fine, I guess? I can probably understand its inclusion into the book since it seems fairly influential, but I can't really get into it. I've heard a lot more better metal music in my life.

Thought it was a bit too esoteric to my taste at first, but the album did really grow on me. I was surprised to not be sick and tired of it after 19 tracks. Would listen again.

Quite enjoyable.

Maybe this album would be good with someone else mixing it. Unless it's meant to be a showcase for a crunchy guitar with a neighbour woman complaining about the noise next apartment over.

Sounds like your average highly processed pop music. Don't get the hype that has lead to her farting around the planet on her private plane.

It's certainly not generic. I'm not gonna say that it's dogshit, since there's some interesting stuff in here, but I'm not gonna say that it's good either. The opposite of "easy listening".

It's pleasant enough to listen but I feel like it doesn't really do enough for me to move it over the the 4/5 territory.

This is some very average Brit rock.

Wasn't aware of the Violent Femmes before, but I digged the album.

It's fine, but I still don't understand why there's so much Dylan in this book.

Hardly high art, but I had fun listening to it.

Morrissey singing in 2004 about how the US "president is never black" might prove that he's not a wise seer. Overall the lyrics are a bit shit, but it's still alright musically. This is my second Morrissey already, and I do have to wonder if he really needed to have four albums in this book (+ The Smiths ones too). Also, that cover art is atrocious.

Passable rock music, entirely unremarkable. Mixing's a bit shit. Hardly noticed the album go by. Possibly because it's not even a full 30 minutes.

The problem with both of Nirvana's albums that are not named "Nevermind" is that I can't help but to compare them to Nevermind, and am then disappointed. Listening to Scentless Apprentice also reminds me of how much I don't like Albini's style, even though it does fit In Utero a lot better than it did Rid Of Me (which I had just about a week before In Utero). Although maybe Scentless Apprentice wouldn't be saved by any other mixer anyway. I kinda wanted to give this a 4/5, but I think it's still worth a 5/5 even though it's no Nevermind.

The concept of this album is a lot more interesting than the end result.

"Perfectly passable" might be the only thing I can think of for this album.

It definitely is dark. Quite beautiful too.

Love me a good disco album.

It's crass but definitely worth a listen.

This is my third Morrissey album after "Viva Hate" and "You Are the Quarry", or the fifth if you count The Smiths' "Strangeways, Here We Come" and "The Queen Is Dead", and I do not understand why this should be in the book when there's already so much Morrissey and there's nothing remarkable about this album.

The album started off with what I presume was the fire alarm, then continued with some chickens being strangled and cats in heat. I wouldn't say it's complete noise, but there's definitely a lot of it.

Feels like I'm listening to bootleg Michael Jackson.

I liked this more than I would have imagined, since I've gotten some fairly bad 90s gangsta rap albums already. Would be a better album without the skits though.

Really fun record.

I imagined that I'd give this a 3/5 or a 4/5 before listening, but now that I'm listening to it, I cannot think of a single reason why I wouldn't give this a 5/5. It's just so extremely solid even though I'm not generally a punk listener.

It's an alright record, better than I expected really. I could've done with less yapping. Not saying that she's necessarily wrong (except for the part about Trump not picking petty fights, hoo boy did that not age well), but I already don't like skits, and having Missy Elliott rant for 60+ seconds between tracks isn't any better.

I wish the recording quality was better, because it's a good album.

Really nice album, actually. Wasn't even aware of The Kinks before.

This is some good indie rock. Was a fun listen. Cool album art too.

Putting this in the tortured cats category. Maybe there's a significant historical reason for its inclusion in the book that I'd know if I had read it, but it was most certainly not chosen for listening enjoyment. The only positive is that the final track is named "Get Out of My House", which is exactly my thoughts towards Kate Bush after this.

Very run of the mill okay.

Maybe a tad bit long and repetitive, but against all expectations I did actually like it.

I almost feel inclined to give it a four because I know Miles Davis can go much harder, but at the same time, it's so pleasant to listen that if it had anyone else's name on it, I'd give it a five.

Being exposed to more and more live albums on this site has not made me care any more about them.